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About six million people receive free foods in Venezuela Caracas, 23 Abr. AVN.- “About four million children receive food in their school thanks to the school feeding program (or PAE, in Spanish) and we have six thousand free meal centers attend about 900,000 people for free,” informed Venezuelan Vice-President Elias Jaua during the opening … Continue reading
TOWARDS RIO+20. ANALYSIS AND PERSPECTIVES OF PROPOSALS OF BOLIVIA, ALBA AND G77+CHINA[1] René Orelllana Halkyer[2] In order to provide information about the process of discussion and negotiation in the context of the Conference on Sustainable Development of the United Nations Rio+20, I would like to invite the readers to analyze this document. This document is … Continue reading
Correo del Orinoco The President of Venezuela’s National Land Institute (INTI), Luis Motta Dominguez, affirmed that more than 224,000 families have benefited from redistributed farmlands made available through the Chavez administration’s agrarian reform program. The announcement was made during an interview with state television on Tuesday when Motta gave an update on the progress being … Continue reading
The Venezuelan Effort to Build a New Food and Agriculture System Christina Schiavoni and William Camacaro Monthly Review In April 2008, as people around the world took to the streets to protest the global food crisis and the lack of political will to address it, a crowd of a different nature gathered in Venezuela. Afro-Venezuelan … Continue reading
27 de marzo de 2012.- “Gracias a los lineamientos y políticas emanadas por el Presidente Hugo Chávez, dirigidas a fortalecer el sector pesquero, nuestro país ha incrementado en un 14 por ciento la captura de peces al pasar de 4 millones 536 mil toneladas en el período de 1986 al 1998 a 5 millones 156 … Continue reading
Caracas, 13 Mar. AVN.- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged to boost agriculture and food production in the country amid strategies that shall be envisaged in the government program 2013-2019. One of the goals is to become Venezuela a great power of the American continent, Chavez said, so he called to emphasize particularly the Grand Mission … Continue reading
Food Voices: The Interviews by Andrianna Natsoulas Felix Lopez, Farmer Urachichi, Yaracuy Felix Lopez is the Coordinator of Production at the Aracal Cooperative in Urachichi in the state of Yaracuy in Venezuela. He is also part of the Indigenous Farmers’ Movement of Yaracuy, known as Movemiento Jirajara. His parents were farmers who raised him with … Continue reading
Food Voices: The Interviews by Andrianna Natsoulas Sara Medina, Farmer Caracus Sara Medina is an urban framer from Caracas, Venezuela. When she was 47 years old, the Revolutionary Venezuelan government made it possible for her to go back to school and study agro-ecology. Through support from a government agency, Capacity and Innovation for Support of … Continue reading
Food Voices: The Interviews by Andrianna Natsoulas Julio Cesar Moreno, Fisherman Chauo, Aragua Julio Cesar Moreno is a fisherman from Chauo in the state ofAragua in Venezuela. He is the spokesperson for the National Organization of Artisanal Fishermen and Fisherwomen and for the Artisanal Fishermen of the Social Front. He is also part of the … Continue reading
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